Sometimes less is better ! I feed every watering at lower ppm hardly going over 600 and i run 18/6 . I do not crank up my light i have it set at 325 watts and it stays there leaves stay nice and green but start there fade about 8 weeks. When there ready there ready no race to the finish line.
my ppm is comprised of a bunch of additives as well as my base nutes....The regular nutes in flower were 5/5/10 bringing me to 650 ish, then 1/3 tsp Monster bloom 775 ish ppm, 5ml Diamond Nectar 900ish, then 5ml cal/mag/ 1 ml hyclean / gallon = 1085
I have the 5 x 5 in a 12 x 12 lung room so I can control the environment pretty easily. The tent has an AC Infinity T6 6" fan on their Controller 67. It keeps the tent environment within a tight parameter to keep plant stress low unless I want to stress them out for a particular purpose. This eliminates the need for a heater in the tent. The only piece of equipment I have on the floor of the tent is my humidifier.
That sounds like a nice set up that can produce well. I'm making more than I need now and I've been getting bigger harvest than I can go through. With just my wife on evening eatables and my daily smoking growing any more would be a waste of electricity and nutes....Its as much a hobby as anything now.....
Beautiful setup you have there RootsRuler!
Yes I hear ya I still have pot from 2 harvest ago, I was looking at my stash today.
dam thing could not take it and seeded up on me.
That's a shame man, You really think the light being too close hermied them or stressed them out enough to pop seeds? I hope that's not the case with mine but I'm only at 75% power still.Win some lose some, I guess that's the way I have to look at things I do.
I was avoiding this post cause I hate being negative and didn't know how to phrase it.
Almost 8 wks and for 7 wks I did pretty good.
Feed chart was excellent and was almost spot on the whole grow, a lil bit high in week 8+ imo.
There is another one called the Hanna feed chart that is good also.
Don't think this one is the same as the other, it's more agressive at the late bloom stage.
Plus the Dyna-Gro chart is specific to brand and it's the brand I use now.
I used this one when I used Botanicare products.
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Then there was the MarsHydro light chart.
Which proves they know nothing about growing these plants.
I guess I took my eyes off the prize for a day or two and that's all it takes.
Sour Deisel is a very sensitive plant and does not like intense light.
It was my biggest most productive plant, it was a monster compared to the others.
Lesson learned ha!
It's done and I would have ripped it out but trying to be positive.
SD is now it's a cookie plant
Too much stress from the light.
OK now I have to move on.
The Fruity OG and QC Blue are doing just fine
even though they suffered the same 100% 16" of light intensity as the other one.
Same with the orphans.
Thinking back, I believe these 2 were in the same solo cup at one point and were from seeds not clones.
I think they are Wedding Cake and Durban Poison.
Anyway, they are ok also except they don't look as strong probably cause of the nute feed I'm guessing.
Plus one is sitting right by the heater.
(If I continue growing from the tent I have to cut out an area to move the heater away from the plants, sorta like an an addition to your house)
I closey checked with touchy feely (My eyes are pretty much useless) to see if there are any seed problems with the F OG n QC B and found none.
Except they are firm and lushious as can be, go figure.
Well, now that I got that off my chest I will post some pic's this Friday, 8 wks into it.
Ya that's why I like them too!
Hey good day, I went 11 weeks with both the QBlue and fruity OG and they just hardened and got more colorful and I only dropped their food on the last week. I flowered under my 1000w hps though and that may change how they colored up some,,,,,
I brought the smaller set 2.2 gal after the 3.9 gal AP did so well.
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Nice but out of my price range.....I think my set up can do 2 more pots without needing a larger reservoir and I could fit 6 easily in my 5x5. That would fit my budget better unless I can find a used system to add on to what I already have.I brought the smaller set 2.2 gal after the 3.9 gal AP did so well.
I was sold after my first try.
I could put the 2.2's outside the 3.9's and fill a room!
I also am thinking about cutting up my 5x5 tent to use as walls for my 6'x9' cellar room if I ever finish it.
It won't fit in this room cause of the height and the furnace pipes running along the ceiling which
is why I have the roof top tent in there now.
There is so many new items I see daily it's so confusing lol in a good way.
RootsRuler has a dynomite setup, I love the Cloudforge humidifiers I like the T7 but expensive oh well.
https://acinfinity.com/humidifiers/
Then there is this:
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Here is the vid on it and also not cheap but very interesting.
Auto Pot is great and price is right but I can dream lol.
What I need now is an Automated lighting system. hahaha
Side note; Leaf Temp = 70 now Tent Temp = 82 Hummi = 40
Yep they are nice but who knows if they are problematic or not.
Ya me too, if I get as nice a finish as I hope / expect to I'll be expanding it for sure. They're starting to go through more water now, I have to add another 3 gal tonight or it'll be too low in the am....
Mine are slowing down maybe 1-1 1/2 gal per day.
The kids have so much fun with the tunnels I bought 2 more,,,
